Ferrari struggled to take advantage of the crash between Hamilton and Verstappen because of its lack of straight line speed.
see photosFerrari last won at Monza when Charles Leclerc took the car home in P1 in 2019
Ferrari stunned most people with a P4 for Charles Leclerc and a P6 for Carlos Sainz Jr on the power-sensitive Monza track, but the home team lost the result when Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s forward cars crashed and retired. felt disappointed. This in turn opened things up for the McLaren pair of Ricciardo and Norris to dominate 1-2, resulting in the Italian team falling 13.5 points behind their major rivals for P3 in the World Constructors’ Championship.
Leclerc found himself in a particularly strong position after the Hamilton-Verstappen crash as it triggered a safety car and, not having stood first, Ferrari was suddenly in P2 behind Ricciardo. However, he was quickly overtaken by Norris, Perez and Bottas, mostly due to a lack of Ferrari power compared to Mercedes and Honda.
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“A reduction of 20hp compared to McLaren. I think we saw that today,” said Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto. With Mercedes the gap would have been the same as both teams use the same engine and perhaps it would have been slightly less with Perez’s Red Bull.
Ferrari is planning an all-new engine for the 2022 season that will see it run through an engine development freeze that will last until 2025. Ferrari wants to have the best engine in F1 after this season. But for the 2021 season also it has an engine update to homologation rules, which can add up to 10 bhp which will reduce its losses for Mercedes and Honda.
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On a track like Monza, the SF21 becomes the sitting duck as 75 percent of the race is at full thrust and with the DRS on, the car becomes an easy prey on the straights.
“We know it was there, it shouldn’t disappoint us, we are working a lot on that, also looking forward to the next season. Development is also going well. It is clear that it is worth losing points. But a race like this should excite us for what we did. It was a solid race in general, good driving, strategy, pit stops from the drivers. Overall it’s good,” he said. Said Binotto very calmly.
Ferrari expected to struggle here but actually did quite well. The problem was that its main rivals in the constructors’ championship drew maximum points as a result of a clash between title contenders Verstappen and Hamilton. Binotto believes, however, that this shortcoming can be overcome.
The Ferrari duo just managed P4 and P6 at Monzai
“We expected a tough weekend for us, overall P4 and P6 is a solid result. Then congrats to McLaren, they scored full points today, great for them. From our side we remain focused.” [on ourselves]We were weak on the restart after the safety car, we overtook. I would say that may be what we know is still our weakness, hence the top speed and engine power and performance,” he said.
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“I think McLaren is well adapted to this track, they had a great weekend last year as well. Yes, we can reverse that, it’s not said that by the end there may be tracks that work for us.” Get better. Then we always do our best. There are some tracks where we expect to do well,” the Ferrari team boss clarified.
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